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Ronald Chernow (/ ˈ tʃ ɜːr n aʊ /; [1] [2] born March 3, 1949) is an American writer, journalist, and biographer. He has written bestselling historical non-fiction biographies. Chernow won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the 2011 American History Book Prize for his 2010 book Washington: A Life.
The book's author, Ron Chernow, is a former freelance business journalist who later fashioned himself as a "self-made historian". [4] His 1990 history of financier J.P. Morgan's family, The House of Morgan, won the National Book Award for Nonfiction. [5]
According to Washington biographer Ron Chernow, her letter may have been the "decisive stroke" in convincing Washington to seek a second term. [60] Their friendship continued unaffected, [59] and he commissioned a poem by Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson as a gift to Powel for her 50th birthday a few months later. [61] [62]
According to Ron Chernow, author of a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Washington, [101] Washington's transformation from a man pursuing self-advancement, to a leading figure in the nascent rebellion, was the culmination of the frustrations he experienced in his dealings with the British.
After publishing definitive biographies of Alexander Hamilton, J. P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, Ulysses S. Grant, and George Washington (the latter of which made our list of the fifty best ...
The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance is a non-fiction book by Ron Chernow, published in 1990.It traces the history of four generations of the J.P. Morgan financial empire, on both sides of the Atlantic, from its obscure beginnings in Victorian London to the crash of 1987.
The project is a family affair for the Washington family. It also stars Malcolm's older brother John David Washington, 40, while sister Katia Washington, 37, produced alongside her dad.
The Washington family is an American family of English origins that was part of both the British landed gentry and the American gentry.It was prominent in colonial America and rose to great economic and political eminence especially in the Colony of Virginia as part of the planter class, owning several highly valued plantations, mostly making their money in tobacco farming.